Programme: Language Contact and Change - Grammatical Structure Encounters the Fluidity of Language, Trondheim, September 22-25, 2010 - NTNU

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Language Contact and Change –
Grammatical Structure Encounters the Fluidity of Language

Conference Programme

- Trondheim (Norway) September 22-25, 2010

**Wednesday 22 September:**
11.00–11.30	OPENING
11.30–12.30	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Derek Bickerton: The Myth of Exceptionalism
12.30–14.00	LUNCH
14.00–14.30	Jan Terje Faarlund: Universal Grammar, Recursion, and Language Contact
14.30–15.00	Guro Fløgstad: The expansion of the preterit in Rioplatense: Contact induced?
15.00–15.30	Mari Nygård: Licensing of discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian
15.30–15.45	BREAK
15.45–16.45	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Rajendra Singh: Getting our house in order: Reflections on language-contact, linguistics, and sociolinguistics
17.30–19.30	RECEPTION [Rica Nidelven Hotel]

**Thursday 23 September:**
9.00–10.00	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Frans Gregersen: Scaling the present to illuminate the past or why (socio)linguistics is a historical science
10.00–10.15	BREAK
10.15–10.45	Sören Schalowski, Katharina Mayr, Ulrike Freywald & Heike Wiese: The dynamics of a multilingual setting: Word order changes in an urban German multiethnolect
10.45–11.15	Antje Meyke: ‘Germlish’ in Georgia/USA: The Relationship between Social Networks and Grammatical Interference in the Language of German Immigrants
11.15–11.45	Kristin M. Eide & Hilde Sollid: Syntactic structures as sociolinguistic variables: Norwegian main clause declaratives
11.45–12.15	Finn Aarsæther, Ingvild Nistov, Toril Opsahl, Unn Røyneland & Bente A. Svendsen: Language practices among adolescents in multilingual Oslo
12.15–13.30	LUNCH
13.30–14.00	Philipp Conzett, Åse Mette Johansen & Hilde Sollid: Gender: variation and change in Northern Norwegian contact varieties
14.00–15.00	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Peter Auer: Dialect change through dialect/standard contact: usage-based perspectives on phonological dialect-to-standard advergence
15.00–15.15	BREAK
15.15–15.45	Verónica Pájaro: Challenging group-categories: A cognitive linguistic contribution to sociolinguistic analysis
15.45–16.15	Steffen Höder : Constructing diasystems: The case of Low German and High German
16.15–16.45	Karine Stjernholm: Linguistic Landscape in Oslo
18.00–	RECEPTION [Øysteinsalen, The Archbishop's Palace]

**Friday 24 September:**
9.00–10.00	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Salikoko S. Mufwene: Language Ecology and Language Evolution: Populations, Individuals, Variation, Competition, and Selection from the Feature Pool
10.00–10.15	BREAK
10.15–10.45	Karoline Kühl: The (c)overtness of bilingual speech and how it is used pragmatically
10.45–11.15	Martin Elsig: The Germanic-like syntax of Old French: assessing the role of language contact
11.15–11.45	Ragnhild Ljosland: Orkney and Shetland dialect grammar: Relict area, contact phenomenon or both?
11.45–12.15	Kateryna Kent: Surzhyk as a Russian-Ukrainian mixed language variety in Ukraine
12.15–13.30	LUNCH
13.30–14.00	Phil Branigan, Paul De Decker & Gerard Van Herk: Gradient social sensitivity and syntactic parameters
14.00–15.00	_{INVITED SPEAKERS} Enoch Aboh & Michel DeGraff: From bareness to bareness: Some notes on nominal phrases in Gungbe and Haitian Creole
15.00–15.15	BREAK
15.15–15.45	Isa Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan & Anders Holmberg: The Northern Subject Rule Across the Anglo-Scottish Border
15.45–16.15	Ásta Svavarsdóttir & Þórhallur Eyþórsson: Structural, lexical and sociolinguistic aspects of language change: Variation in oblique subject constructions in Icelandic and beyond
17.00–18.15	GUIDED TOUR [Starting from Rica Nidelven Hotel]
19.30–	BANQUET [Rica Nidelven Hotel]

**Saturday 25 September:**
9.30–10.30	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Leonie Cornips: Same place, different language contact outcomes
10.30–10.45	BREAK
10.45–11.15	Ivar Berg: Language contact and language choice in early 16th century Norway
11.15–11.45	Jeff Siegel: Second Dialect Acquisition and Language Change
11.45–12.15	Hjalmar P. Petersen: Transmission Processes in Language Contact
12.15–13.30	LUNCH
13.30–14.00	Fufen Jin: Linguistic competence in the minority language: A case study of a Norwegian-Chinese bilingual
14.00–14.30	Tamami Shimada: Grammatical Innovations and Contact-induced Restructuring in Hiberno-English
14.30–14.45	BREAK
14.45–15.45	_{INVITED SPEAKER} Frederick J. Newmeyer: Syntactic Change: Between Parameters and Fuzzy Grammar

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Contact information

The organisers of the conference are:
Brit Mæhlum
Tor A. Åfarli

Conference email:
gsfl2010@hf.ntnu.no

Conference programme

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Illustrasjonsbilde/FOTO

River and wharves in Trondheim